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Deaf Children's Acquisition of the Passive Voice
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Using ChatGPT as a Tool to Acquire the Passive Voice in English
… is capable of helping people learn English passive voice. Lexical Functional Grammar was mentioned and compared to transformational grammar. A survey was conducted, and the results indicated that ChatGPT is helpful for people, and they would rely on its answers. Every prompt in the thesis …
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Working memory availability and quality control in children's production of passive sentences as novices
… = 24) were asked to recall the previously-heard, passive-voice descriptions of images displaying a transitive-verb action. These responses were performed while either holding a spatial-visual WM load, a verbal load, or no load at all. Participant responses were coded for either maintaining the …
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A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CAUSALITY IN HATE SPEECH
… do vary cross-linguistically. For example, passive voice and causative verbs were used more frequently in English hate speech and implicit causality verbs were used more in Spanish and German hate speech. However, none of the syntactic choices examined were used to assign less causal …
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Interpreting author intentions by analyzing story modulation
… how we assemble textual evidence such as passive voice, instances of harm, and use of hedging words such as alleged, to tell a coherent story of the communicator's rhetorical goals. I demonstrate this computational model with an implementation, RASHI, that recognizes and systematically …
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A Radical Construction Grammar Analysis of Antipassive Constructions
Voice is one of the most complex grammatical phenomena expressed in human language. Broadly, voice is concerned with how the functional relations between participants in a clause are mapped onto grammatical roles in different ways. While voice has been widely studied (e.g., Fox & Hopper 1994, Givón …
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(implicit) Argument Introduction, Voice And Causatives
… properties of implicit arguments in various voice constructions, such as active and passive voice, applicatives, causatives and impersonals, using mainly Sason Arabic (SA) and Turkish as empirical starting points. I add to the typology of null arguments, further demonstrating that they do not …
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The Goodman psycholinguistic model of English reading and its applicability to Semitic languages
… readings). Immediate readings include the active voice and the passive voice sentences, whereas delayed readings include causative sentences. The ATRT showed how reading was relatively faster for most readers when they were inferring the diacritics that were absent. The presence of diacritics made …
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Types of interference and their resolution in monolingual language production
… processes to grammatical encoding (grammatical voice construction and number agreement computation). In Study 2, only the flanker effect was a significant predictor of the PWI but not NA effect, while the remaining inhibitory measures made no significant contribution to either the PWI or NA …
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Institutional Responses to Racial Incidents in California Public Higher Education: A Qualitative Historical Document Analysis
… the linguistic and rhetorical mechanisms—such as passive voice, nominalization, and register shifts—that institutions used to narrate or erase racial harm. Critical race theory provided the interpretive framework for examining how this discourse reproduced or contested racialized power. Drawing on …
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Der Einfluss der Informationsstruktur auf das Verständnis von Aktiv- und Passivsätzen im ungestörten Spracherwerb
Kinder erwerben Passivstrukturen später als die meisten anderen syntaktischen Strukturen. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob dies auf informationsstrukturelle Faktoren zurückzuführen sein könnte. Probleme beim Erwerb von Passivsätzen wurden in vorhergehenden Studien unter …
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Voice syncretism in Bedouin Hijazi Arabic: the interplay of language acquisition and contact
… in progress in the morphological marking of passive constructions among speakers of Bedouin Hijazi Arabic (BHA), a dialect spoken in the west of Saudi Arabia. The speakers belong to three age groups: old, middle-aged, and young. Data were collected from responses of 294 BHA speakers to an …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… of complex syntax in Spanish, namely passive and relative clauses, by early English-Spanish bilinguals, also known as heritage language (HL) learners, and by second language (L2) learners. To contribute to current theoretical debates on the role of input and age in L2 and bilingual …
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The neurofunctional correlates of sentence processing: focus on difficulties of morphosyntactic processing and thematic role assignment in aphasia
… reversible sentences presented in the active or passive voice. In an auditory sentence comprehension task, participants were asked to match a sentence spoken by the computer to the corresponding picture, that had to be distinguished from a thematic, a morphosyntactic or a lexical-semantic foil. …